Photoshop Effects Tutorials
Best Photoshop tutorials online
Create original art using Photoshop shapes
Thursday ~ April 04, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
Photoshop offers a great number of preset paths which can be put to good use for creating your own art. This tutorial will show you how to create great looking art using the simplest of shapes. Here’s a result we will try to get:
Textured buttons
Thursday ~ April 04, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
This tutorial will guide you in creating a textured button using some of Photoshop’s filters and lighting effects. Here’s what we should be finised with:
Hummer H2 wallpaper design using clipmask
Thursday ~ April 04, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
First, let me go ahead and show you what we will have at the end (click on the image to view it full size): Now let’s roll! continue…
Creating a scatter brush
Saturday ~ March 03, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
Recent Photoshop versions have come a long way in transforming the application into something a lot more than a mere photo manipulation tool. It is now an image creation tool, and as such, it also caters to people looking to emulate the traditional media experience on a real canvas. This tutorial will touch on some of the the basics of Photoshop’s Brush Engine and instruct you in creating a scatter brush for use in your own designs. I will go ahead and show you what we can create with our new brush:
Text effects using patterns
Friday ~ March 03, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
This tutorial will guide you in creating a simple text effect using the pattern presets in Photoshop. You will discover how to create your own pattern and apply it to a specific font’s outline. 1) Start off by creating a new Photoshop document with a width of 1000 and a height of 240 pixels. Using a very bold font, type in your text and resize it to fit the window. In this case, the font size is around 40 pt, but your mileage will of course vary depending on the font you are using.
Writing text on the PATH with Photoshop CS
Sunday ~ March 03, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
In this tutorial, we will learn how to write text on a path, this was almost not possible in the earlier versions of Photoshop up to version 7, but now its pretty simple to work with this new feature that has been introduced since CS. Here’s what we should get at the end:
Writing text on path can be quite useful and enhance the designs of your layouts etc. Designing cards, banners or poster, putting text on the paths can add some spice!
Creating a simple web template with Photoshop
Monday ~ February 02, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
In this tutorial we’re gonna create a website template using photoshop. I’m not gonna cover how to write the HTML for the design, I will only go on and create the design of the template using photoshop. 1) Open a new document. For width specify 770, and for height specify 400. 2) Create a new layer. press the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the toolbox, and make a rectangle as in the following picture. Fill The rectangle with black using the Paint Bucket Tool.
Smoothering and glamouring the skin on the photo
Saturday ~ February 02, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
In this tutorial I will explain to you how to remove the blemishes, and make smoother skin.
This is very used nowadays especially in the magazines. I’ve provided an image of a blond girl with the tutorial, but for sure, the techniques can be applied on any picture you want.
Removing objects and placing them into another scene
Friday ~ February 02, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
Some of the very important aspects of photoshop is its ability to remove objects (humans, tree, animals, etc..) from a given photo, and place them in another one. In this tutorial I will cover this issue and teach you how to do this step by step. First of all, We have this little bear, I chose this image because it doesn’t have alot of complex shapes, so this way you can start learning straght forward.
How to make fake Valentine’s day cards and incorporate them into a photograph
Thursday ~ February 02, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials
I think we’ve all had years when we didn’t get any Valentine’s day cards, and I don’t know what’s worse; trying to explain it to your friends or to your mother. Well now with this amazing invention they call ‘Photoshop’, these embarrassing situations need never happen again. I’ll be showing you how to create a very basic Valentine’s card and how to incorporate it into a photograph for you to send to your worried mother. Read on! Final Image Here’s the final image. I’ve been pretty lucky this year!
